Close-Knit Group (Continued from Page B 16) Knit on a large, round /needle, the yokes are worked in old Nor wegian patterns, modified to fit and add a designer-like touch to the popular, everyday sweatshirt. It takes her about 20 hours to knit the intricate pattern forming the large collar-like effect. A pullover with a smiling bear and Christmas wreath took only two weeks of knitting for Guild member Doris Kohr, York. Tem porarily on crutches, she took advantage of the confinement to knit the attractive holiday sweater. Also in the works is a Christmas stocking - for a dog. Not bad for a knitter who, 43 years ago, learned to knit, but not to purl. Sheer determination at her youthful age, however, overcame that “I saw a kit for argyle stockings on a trip to Lancaster and decided I was going to make them. My family laughed at me; but my first project was a pair of argyle socks,”- she remembers. While never sure her father really liked them, she smiles, remembering that he used them until they wore out. Always worried that her pro jects would fall apart, Doris, for many years, would only knit for her family members. She relates one instance, though, when she tried ripping out a knitting CHIMNEY PROBLEMS? Sup; Supi Inflated Pneui Supaform Supaflu Pumped Supaform Spacers mistake- and had trouble even get ting the yam to come apart. At Wilson College, everyone knitted argyle socks, Elizabeth Hoke remembered of her collegi ate years. “Mine were a disaster,” says the Hanover resident, who at age four learned knitting from her grand mother, using wooden lollipop sticks. While she knit some items for her children, Elizabeth grew even more interersted when the family acquired Dorset sheep. 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